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Unraveling the mystery of prime numbers

ScienceNews: Two mathematicians, Ce Bian and Andrew Booker of the University of Bristol in England, now have the first glimpse of an elusive mathematical object that may one day help crack the key to the distribution of the prime numbers. They have found the first example of a third-degree transcendental L-function.

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